Today in class we looked at the opening scenes, of three different police dramas. The three different scenes we looked at were from: New Tricks, Heart-beat and Ashes to Ashes.
To begin we firstly started by watching: New ticks. Within the Mise-En-Scene we firstly notice what the police are wearing, for they're not in uniform but the men's costumes are- formal, and the ladies-modern street style. I think the uniform has a significant overview of the drama as this gives the impression of a relaxed atmosphere. We then notice the setting of the scene; we see this as an un-official work space for there is- Dartboards on the wall and games around the work areas. The Mise-En-Scene how ever, does show the stereotypical view of a police station. The next police drama opening that we watched was: Ashes to Ashes: We firstly notice police officers in the background, sitting down and being lazy with the lady being active, this here is juxtaposition show the women do more within their jobs. The floor in the police stations is white and black; as well as being chequered here this connotes the two colours also known as good and evil. There is also a wall for division within the police station, this is their coffee room, here Alex is now sat down whilst the man walks in and begins to talk to her, in this scene we see posters around the room of girls half naked, from this we perceive police men as lazy. We then watched Heart-Beat: The beginning shot of this scene, is an off-duty woman and a policeman on a date, in the background we see this is the stereotype of a village pub, this straight away denotes to the audience this is a friendly local environment in which everyone knows each other. As well as New Tricks, we notice the background and the outfits; the off-duty police men are dressed casual: leather jackets- this connotes 'cool' for the 1960's.
We then continued, by looking into the sound of each opening scene, we again started with: New tricks. The opening scene firstly begins with an introduction; the music playing throughout the introducing stage is up beat- country and western, this sets and appeals the audience expectations of what to expect. We then once again here music within the auction scene, here the music foreshadows confusion of the plot, the music used here is jazz- this connotes to the audience this is where the development of the plot arises. We then looked into: Ashes to Ashes, the introducing music is iconic, up-beat and faster pace for the story and settings are a lot faster. There is also diagetic sounds throughout such as the: Radio and TV. Following this we then moved on to Heart-beat. The opening scene too starts by introducing all of the characters, beginning with a happy and iconic theme tune. Throughout there is also a lot of diagetic sounds used within the TV and radio.
To begin we firstly started by watching: New ticks. Within the Mise-En-Scene we firstly notice what the police are wearing, for they're not in uniform but the men's costumes are- formal, and the ladies-modern street style. I think the uniform has a significant overview of the drama as this gives the impression of a relaxed atmosphere. We then notice the setting of the scene; we see this as an un-official work space for there is- Dartboards on the wall and games around the work areas. The Mise-En-Scene how ever, does show the stereotypical view of a police station. The next police drama opening that we watched was: Ashes to Ashes: We firstly notice police officers in the background, sitting down and being lazy with the lady being active, this here is juxtaposition show the women do more within their jobs. The floor in the police stations is white and black; as well as being chequered here this connotes the two colours also known as good and evil. There is also a wall for division within the police station, this is their coffee room, here Alex is now sat down whilst the man walks in and begins to talk to her, in this scene we see posters around the room of girls half naked, from this we perceive police men as lazy. We then watched Heart-Beat: The beginning shot of this scene, is an off-duty woman and a policeman on a date, in the background we see this is the stereotype of a village pub, this straight away denotes to the audience this is a friendly local environment in which everyone knows each other. As well as New Tricks, we notice the background and the outfits; the off-duty police men are dressed casual: leather jackets- this connotes 'cool' for the 1960's.
We then continued, by looking into the sound of each opening scene, we again started with: New tricks. The opening scene firstly begins with an introduction; the music playing throughout the introducing stage is up beat- country and western, this sets and appeals the audience expectations of what to expect. We then once again here music within the auction scene, here the music foreshadows confusion of the plot, the music used here is jazz- this connotes to the audience this is where the development of the plot arises. We then looked into: Ashes to Ashes, the introducing music is iconic, up-beat and faster pace for the story and settings are a lot faster. There is also diagetic sounds throughout such as the: Radio and TV. Following this we then moved on to Heart-beat. The opening scene too starts by introducing all of the characters, beginning with a happy and iconic theme tune. Throughout there is also a lot of diagetic sounds used within the TV and radio.
After looking into the sound we decided to look at the shot types used we again decided to firstly look at: New tricks, to start with there were many close up of the main group of police, when having discussion, in this scene as well as this there was also point of view shots- these shots were used when the main lady was putting pictures of the suspects on to the white board in the middle- here the police are investigating she puts the pictures up and each time looks behind her this is the point of view shot as we see what she’s looking at and then this turns and we are then able to see what there views upon the situation is. When she’s putting the pictures up, there is use of over the shoulder shots- this allows the audience to have a wider view of the action and what exactly is going on. Whilst looking at the shot-types we also looked at the composition of shots; the woman who appears to be the only woman police officer is for grounded in the centre- this connotes to the audience leadership. We then moved on to: Ashes to Ashes: Within ashes to ashes many medium shots were used- this shot is a shot purposely for the audience to see emotions and the characters body language- more involvement. There is also many (Point of view shots) - In which these are the main characters in the scene’s (Alex’s) point of view. There is also a variety distance shots- for example when Alex and the main police man have a conversation in the ‘coffee room. We then moved on to: Heart-beat; the first shot that begins heart beat is a two shot- a two shot is when there is two faces, the two people were having dinner and within there was also a point of view shot- the camera would always show the person who wasn’t talking’s shoulder and head. We also through looking at the shot types saw juxtaposition of the women the sergeant had taken out for dinner admiring him and his professional coldness.
We then moved on to look at the editing for all three: New tricks had fast transitions to start, with to establish the characters but however the pace of the scene was very slow. This means the story took more time to establish however the characters were established very quickly, we then moved on to ashes to ashes: This was a fast up beat scene, with fast transitions and a quick pace throughout however this meant the focus was a mid muddles and hard to catch up. We then looked at Heart-beat, heart beat had longer scenes than the previous two- slow and smooth. However the locations similar to the other two change quickly.
We then moved on to look at the editing for all three: New tricks had fast transitions to start, with to establish the characters but however the pace of the scene was very slow. This means the story took more time to establish however the characters were established very quickly, we then moved on to ashes to ashes: This was a fast up beat scene, with fast transitions and a quick pace throughout however this meant the focus was a mid muddles and hard to catch up. We then looked at Heart-beat, heart beat had longer scenes than the previous two- slow and smooth. However the locations similar to the other two change quickly.
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